Category: Reviews
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Blu-ray Review: A TOUCH OF ZEN Comes to the Criterion Collection
Halfway through a year already crammed full of impressive releases (with no sign of slowing down… Dekalog for September!), The Criterion Collection has also taken advantage of the recent 4K remaster of King Hu’s seminal A Touch of Zen, adding it to their collection on Blu-ray as spine #825.
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Blu-ray Review: CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA is a Misty New Classic
The disc boasts cover art that makes the film look like either a mountaineering murder mystery or an Adrian Lyne sex thriller. It’s neither, though I’d certainly pay to see the B-side of this movie, same team and cast, which takes a crack at that. Instead, the majority of the film surrounds two women –…
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Blu-ray Review: I Can Think Of At Least One Thing Wrong With The Title Of Shindo Kaneto’s THE NAKED ISLAND
Simpsons jokes and expectations of foreign film exoticism notwithstanding, Shindo Kaneto’s 1960 film The Naked Island has arrived on Blu-ray by way of the Criterion Collection (spine #811). Shindo’s follow-up to that film, Onibaba, remains one of my favourite movies from the Criterion label, so I was eager to check out this title – which…
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TCAF Findings: THE NAMELESS CITY – I LOVE THIS PART – MOM BODY
Faith Erin Hicks’ The Nameless City was my major draw at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this year. I’m an avid fan of Hicks’ work and have been following her for nearly a decade (and running into her at a TCAF every couple of years almost throughout). The project, announced a couple of years ago, is…
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Blu-ray Review: Mega-Length, Little-Seen A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY Arrives On Criterion
Fellow TwitchFilm writer Kurt Halfyard knows of my overwhelming fondness for cinematic experiences of unusual length. He and I will often seek out the one ticket in the Toronto International Film Festival’s annual program that will see us sitting in the darkened Cinema 4 till our posteriors have gone numb and most normal folks would…
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Blu-ray Review: DOWNHILL RACER Snaps Into Sharp Focus On Criterion
Here’s what the Criterion Collection is good for: equal parts enshrining of significant milestones in the art of film (see last week’s review of Ikiru), and the championing of striking works of filmcraft that have somehow slipped from the narrative of classic works.
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Review: SPECTRE
From A to Bond was a countdown rewatch, in alphabetical order, of the James Bond movies, which I wrote for The Substream leading up to the release of SKYFALL in 2012. I’ve continued the format for the SPECTRE review, and will probably continue doing so till I (live and let) die.
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The GODFATHER Trilogy on Boxing Day
Wherever possible I do a marathon of The Godfather trilogy on Boxing Day. I’ve been doing it since the DVD boxed set came out, so at least ten years, maybe more. I converted over to blu-ray like a good boy when that became an option. I suspect I’ve missed it for the last few years running, but once…
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Review: STAR TREK GENERATIONS (Blogging The Next Generation Christmas Special)
“You know, there was a time when I wouldn’t hurt a fly. Then the Borg came… and they showed me that if there’s one constant in this whole universe, it’s death.”